Love Tutoring

Love Tutoring Synopsis

A practical guide for current and aspiring tutors that will give them the skills, knowledge and context to tutor more effectively.

Written by former school-leader Julia Silver, Love Tutoring: Be the tutor your student needs is a practical guide to professional development for current and aspiring tutors. Based on her Foundations of Effective Tutoring course, Julia shares an enthusiastic and enabling vision of tutoring as a burgeoning space within the educational landscape.

At a time when teacher retention and pupil attendance are at an all-time low, tutoring provides a gentler, more person-centred and holistic approach to teaching and learning. Once considered a Plan B option, tutoring is fast becoming a legitimate career choice.

The rollout of the UK government’s National Tutoring Programme has brought tutoring into the spotlight. Previously considered ‘shadow-schooling’ over the last decade, a quarter of all 11–16-year-olds have received private tuition in England and Wales (rising to 42% in London). But for tutoring to take its place in the future of education, and become an affordable option for all our students, we need more, and better qualified tutors.

Combining theory and practice, this book provides tutors with a solid grounding in the pedagogy of tutoring. Julia takes the big ideas from evidence-based practice in teaching and learning today and makes them relevant and accessible to the ways tutors work.

Backed up by real-life examples and interviews with professional tutors, this book offers a broad insight into the tutoring profession and explores the different ways to make tutoring a career that you love. Love Tutoring is an invitation, a provocation, and a call to action. This book goes right to the heart of the tutoring relationship and will give every tutor a roadmap for becoming the tutor their student needs.

• Shares a vision that allows tutoring to be accessed by all students, leaders and schools.

• Combines theory and practice, offering a grounding in a holistic approach to teaching and learning based on the most up-to-date thinking, as well as suggestions for tailoring strategies for individual tutors.

• Includes real-life examples and interviews, providing tutors with a platform to talk about themselves and their experiences and to share their tips and advice.

• Explores potential barriers to learning when tutoring, including SEND and poor mental health and wellbeing.

• Provides guidance on safeguarding for tutors – how to keep themselves and their pupils safe.

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